The sword of a Hispano-Muslim warlord is digitized in 3D
A treasure from the Toledo Army Museum (Spain)Credit: Ingheritag3D At age 90, Ali Atar, one of the main military chiefs ...
Tag: Archaeology
Uncovering the secrets of the American ‘Jurassic Mile’
Credit: The University of Manchester Scientists at The University of Manchester have joined forces with a major US Museum and ...
Complex societies gave birth to big gods, not the other way around
Big data analyses suggest that moralizing gods are rather the product than the drivers of social complexityCredit: (c) the authors ...
Researchers shed new light on the origins of modern humans
The work, published in Nature, confirms a dispersal of Homo sapiens from southern to eastern Africa immediately preceded the out-of-Africa ...
New Cretaceous fossil sheds light on avian reproduction
Credit: Barbara Marrs A team of scientists led by Alida Bailleul and Jingmai O'Connor from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology ...
Earliest known Mariner’s Astrolabe research published today to go in Guinness Book of Records
Credit: David Mearns Guinness World Records have independently certified an astrolabe excavated from the wreck site of a Portuguese Armada ...
Ancient DNA research shines spotlight on Iberia
The largest-ever study of ancient DNA from the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) suggests that the Iberian male lineages were ...
Sea otters’ tool use leaves behind distinctive archaeological evidence
Researchers used an interdisciplinary approach combining ecology and archaeological methods to study sea otters' past behaviorCredit: Natalie Uomini. Haslam et ...
Prestigious title awarded for marine robotics
Professor Stefan Williams has been recognized by the IEEECredit: Lachlan Toohey/University of Sydney With a career focused on robotics and ...
The day the world burned
Geologic and paleontological evidence unearthed in southern Chile supports the theory that a major cosmic impact event occurred approximately 12,800 ...
Changes in rat size reveal habitat of ‘Hobbit’ hominin
A new glimpse into the shifting ecology of Homo floresiensisCredit: Image from the research paper A study of rat body ...
From Stone Age chips to microchips: How tiny tools may have made us human
The technology of miniaturization set hominins apart from other primatesCredit: Emory University Anthropologists have long made the case that tool-making ...
Revamping science: Making room for more voices
How diversity in science is not just about representation but about enriching knowledge Science is known for being objective and ...
Teenage T. rex was already chomping on prey, new UW Oshkosh research shows
Credit: Patrick Flood, UW Oshkosh New research from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh indicates that even as a teenager the ...
Researchers find a piece of Palaeolithic art featuring birds and humans
An exceptional milestone in European Palaeolithic rock artCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA It is not very common to find representations of ...
Criteria for the reduction of environmental impact applied in the Roman Theatre of Itálica
A study by the University of Seville has suggested that life-cycle assessment form part of the decision-making process in heritage ...
Proofs of parallel evolution between cognition, tool development, and social complexity
A study analyzes the selective attention processes that determine how we explore and interact with our environmentCredit: CSIC Researchers examined ...
Vast record of past climate fluctuations now available thanks to laser imaging of shells
Refined techniques for laser imaging of shell growth rings are tapping into previously hidden data of marine climate change; by ...
New findings shed light on origin of upright walking in human ancestors
4.5 million-year old fossil shows evidence of greater reliance on bipedalism than previously suggestedCredit: Case Western Reserve University School of ...
High-tech laser scans uncover hidden military traverse at Alcatraz Island
Credit: Binghamton University, State University of New York BINGHAMTON, NY - High-tech radar and laser scans have uncovered a hidden ...
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